# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-a-wirtanen
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:07:05.467Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carl-a-wirtanen"
name: "Carl A. Wirtanen"
slug: "carl-a-wirtanen"
description: "Carl Alvar Wirtanen was an American astronomer and discoverer of comets and minor planets who worked at Lick Observatory. He was of Finnish ancestry."
tagline: "American astronomer (1910–1990)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1910-11-11"
deathDate: "1990-03-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.333333333333333
  historical:           16.208532
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump